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| Adia Colar |
The Internet provides us with many opportunities to better health. Not only are there hundreds of thousands of health-related web site that report on the latest medical research, treatments, discoveries and controversies, there are also bloggers who bravely share their health issues.
Adia Colar is one such blogger. A publicist who promotes psychology, self-help and health books, Adia is also a freelance writer who has written about many subjects, including her own recovery from an eating disorder.
Her essays are posted on her own blog and other places, such as the multi-million hit site Psychology Today and Huffington Post
Her blog entries are engaging and informative. She has strongly-held beliefs and shares them with humor, anger, pain, always honestly, giving courage to a lot of women who feel similarly but haven't had the words to express themselves. For them, Adia provides a bridge between what they feel and how to describe their feelings.
Sample quote from a blog entry by Adia on the television show, "The Price of Beauty," which shows the extremely painful -- physically and emotionally -- lengths some woman go to fill in mainstream media's definition of what a beautiful woman should look like:
"The optimal way for me to be with someone like that is to accept myself, curves, lumps, bumps, aunties, and all and not settle for anyone who didn't feel the same way."
When NBC decided to produce yet another show that ultimately serves to make people feel bad about their bodies, "Thintervention with Jackie Warner," Adia wrote a pointed letter to the network:
"Dear NBC,
Sigh. You're doing it again. First it was The Biggest Loser, then Losing It with Jillian, then Bravo planned a SkinnyGirl show before Bethenny Frankel got pregnant, and now you've created Thintervention with Jackie Warner.
I already know about the dangers of The Biggest Loser. Third season's Kai Hibbard has recounted her experiences, including:
• trainers encouraging contestants to dehydrate before weigh-ins,
• overexercising,
• contestants being pushed to work out despite being injured,
• producers overriding doctors' orders
• overexercising,
• contestants being pushed to work out despite being injured,
• producers overriding doctors' orders
...and more. Kai has shared how she ended up developing an eating disorder that she still struggles with as a result of her experiences on the show.
But simply having a weight-, eating-, and workout-dysfunctional show wasn't enough for you. To reward The Biggest Loser's high ratings, you gave the main trainer, Jillian Michaels, her own show to further spread this dangerous, deceptive message."
One of the greatest things about Internet is the many web sites that offer free blogging templates -- essentially, a blog is a web site where you write short essays about whatever subject you want -- so that people can share their experiences and thoughts. And sometimes, there are bloggers who share information that benefits a world of people. Adia is among those bloggers.
For more information on how to set up your own blog, here is a short list of free blogging sites that provide a range of templates -- or designs -- for you to choose from. They also show you step-by-step how to set up your blog so that you, too, can share information that, like Adia, can be helpful to untold millions of people.
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